Disraeli was wrong. Coalition has worked

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You may not like its record, but on health, schools and welfare the Government has been extraordinarily active

The darling of Liberal politics John Stuart Mill once said of the biologist and philosopher Herbert Spencer that “he was so good he should have been better”. As the political term draws to an end, this, rather than an unfolding rupture, is the correct verdict on the working of the coalition.

The squabbles of government will always make for easy copy. Vince Cable carries round his own smog of gloom. Liberal Democrats will rightly not stomach the Communications Bill and it was remarkable to witness the Prime Minister and his deputy making separate statements in response to the Leveson report.